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   9 December 2008 - #2685 - Hugh Laurie, Joel McHale, Gaslight Anthem.   
   	String Dance!   
   	Conologue.  Fran Drescher, of The Nanny, wants to be appointed   
   to Hillary Clinton's Senate seat; unfortunately, the seat has been   
   promised to Mister Belvedere.  Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is   
   sorry he tried to sell Obama's Senate seat, and is extremely sorry he   
   tried to sell it on Craigslist.  Oprah Winfrey's weight is up to 200   
   pounds, but 180 pounds of that is wallet.   
      
   	The Tree at Rockefeller Center: to make it popular on the   
   Internet, Morris Scolepsky's Christmas Tree Upskirt Camera.   
      
   	Max and LaBamba: GreedySpinelessScum-Bucket@nbc.com.   
      
   	In The News: The New York Post says it'll be 51 degrees.  The   
   Daily News says 49.  It was 20 degrees yesterday.   
      
   	Conan pauses to congratulate Leno on being on at 10 pm.  Conan   
   can keep doing his Jay Leno impression.   
      
   	The Late Night Love Doll Christmas Choir: Jingle Bells.  Almost.   
      
   	James Lipton Is Upset: about _Frost/Nixon_.  He likes   
   _Lipton/Lipton_.   
      
   Hugh Laurie:   
   	Los Angeles is stranger than the Moon: you can't see it from   
   London.  Los Angeles drivers don't use the front window.  How do car   
   wrecks *do* that?  Laurie's American accent is spot on; he finds it   
   challenging.  The British cameraman on _House_ throws Laurie's accent   
   off.  Dick van Dyke in _Mary Poppins_: apparently he was hired for his   
   Cockney, strangely enough.  Laurie's father was a doctor; it informed   
   his attitude to medicine.  Ancient medicines?  2,000 years ago people   
   died at age twenty.  Medical props on _House_ don't bother him; but once   
   he cut himself getting ice cream (with a knife), bloodless,   
   disturbingly.   
      
   Joel McHale:   
   	He works for E!, he's paid in pelts.  Having kids to drive to   
   San Francisco?  It produced awkward moments at an In-and-Out Burger when   
   a little person walked past his son, who demanded, ``what is that?'' and   
   his wife started laughing.  All sorts of odd negotiations with the kids:   
   ``I don't want to eat fish, I want to see Isaac's penis.''  His brother   
   is an ordained Episcopal priest but isn't gay.  ``How many of your   
   friends' brothers have a TV show?''  ``It's on E!.''  Hugh Hefner's   
   angry at The Soup for calling him an old piece of leather.  Something   
   called `Tina Tequila' was on the show.  He goes after the Kardashians on   
   his show.   
      
   Gaslight Anthem:   
   	The '59 Sound: The '59 Sound.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)